Re: why god spells backward of dog?


Dusan Vukotic wrote:

DhAG --- able; Dagda the able one Serb. dičan, DIKA

GADh --- good; English good German gut; Serb. 'goditi', 'GODI'
(pleasant, suitable)

AGDh --- noble; ancient Greek agathos for good, noble, brave,
valiant, apt, fit; Serb. 'UGODAN' (pleasant)

DhGA --- honorable; ancient Greek doxa for reputation, honor, fame,
splendor, glory, majesty; Serb. dičan, DIKA; Lat. dux

ADhG --- of integrity; ancient Greek aethikos English ethics ethical
(good in the moral sense); Lat. educo, dux; Serb. DOUKA, pouka, učiti,
poučiti, odučiti, doučiti (learn, teach)

GDhA --- joyous; ancient Greek gaethosynae for joy; Serb. UGODA
(pleasant time)

GOD - Serb. 'to Bogu GODI' to please the God; 'BOGO-UGODNO' god
pleasing

Pers. khodâ (god) ; Hebr. elil, el; Hindu bhagwaan; Russ. бог;
Serb. bog; Bacchus; Latv. dievs; Ita. deo (dio); Fr. Dieu

Wow, that's great, thank you so much. I must learn Serbian.
As for khodâ: Yusuf B. Gursey mentions the older form xuda,
Lord, master. Consider also Proto-Indo-European *kodh-
for to guard, care for. God is the good one, even the good
shepard, the one who guards us and cares for us ...

In order to understand the evolution of all the above names for god we
must go back to the Egyption god Knepf (god of wisdom), known in greek
as Nebo (the god of knowledge!). Mesopotamian Nabu is the son of Bel
and personal god of Nebuchadnezzar wherefrom this babylonian ruler
derived his own name. If we now compare Kneph and Nebo with the Greek
νέφος, νεφέλη (cloud, fog), the German 'Nebel' (fog) and the
Slavic 'nebo' (sky/haeven) we are going to understand that the basis of
the all above-mentioned words is the reversed ancient basis BEL-GON.
The normal basis BEL-GON was the source of the words like German Wolke
(cloud), Russ. облако, Serb. oblak (cloud). It became visible
that sky and cloud are mutualy dependant, because, for instance, the
Serbian 'nebo' (sky) is the gon- prefixed 'oblak' (cloud) - Serb.
naoblačiti (overcloud; NAOBLAKA < GON-BEL-GON). Thousands of different
words in diferent IE languages appeared from the fertile 'belgon'
source; and all of them could be traced historically with the highest
precision possible.

Now to the main question: the Persian khodâ is phonologically very
close to the English 'god' and absolutely the same as the Serbian 'god'
(godina year; Russ. год). In fact, in this case one would say we
have to deal with the geminated GON syllable; likewise the Serbian word
'kucanje' (knocking). Although it seems logical, GON-GON was not the
basis of the Serbian 'godina', because 'godina' sprang out from the
HOR-GON ur-syllables, in the same way as it happened to other Serbian
words, as 'hođenje' (hodanje walking), 'korak' (pace, step) and 'krug'
(circle).

This is a moment where we should point out at the insurmountable
difficulties the modern linguistic science has to deal with in similar
cases. Seemingly, there are little semantic meanings that the Serbian
words 'hodanje' (walking), 'korak' (step) and 'krug' (circle) could
have in common; and one would say that it would be absolutely
impossible to reinstate any kind of the phonological relation between
these two words, 'krug' (circle) and 'hodanje' (walking). Obviously, in
Slavic languages 'god', 'godina' (year) was understood either as
'hodanje' (walking) or 'kruženje' (orbit, circulation, cyclicity). In
addition, there is the Serbian word indicating movement – kretanje
– also the one of those that were derived from the HOR-GON basis.

The most part of the modern etymologists agreed that the words 'god'
and 'good' are not related. Is it so, really? Let us try to see the
history of the other Slavic words, similar to 'god', 'godina' (year),
goditi (please, suit, fit), 'gađati' (to aim, shoot for/at), 'gaditi'
(loath, abhor). Here we must be very careful, because it seems that all
these words might have also been the "products" of the reduplicated
ancient GON syllable.

Now we shall see that Serbian word 'gađenje' (loathing, repugnance)
has been derived from 'uhođenje' (spying, following someone secretely
by walking behind); on the other side is 'ugađanje' (pleasing) derived
from the same 'uhođenje' (waking behind), this time not in sense of
spying but as an immediate help that someone could have been looking
for. The one of the first obligation of the Christian being is
"pleasing the God who made him" (Serb. BOGU UGODITI).

DV

ps
Franz, you said there are excellent linguists on this discussion-list.
I hope they would be able to grasp what I was talking about here.

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